so will Reddit
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Wow the goddamn arrogance
This doesn't surprise me, during the whole process they didn't even try to pretend that they were listening.
The thing that really gets me is how poorly they communicated: slandering the Apollo dev, ignoring mod's concerns, lying, not giving enough notice, and having the audacity to hold an "AMA" but answer basically none of the questions.
Like if you're going to go through with this change at the bear minimum you could be professional about it. But they way they did it was very arrogant and impatient.
Looking at the Blackout Tracker it seems a few subs have folded early - r/adviceanimals and r/travel being the largest. Also the news subs and random ones like r/movies or r/photoshopbattles never joined in - were they not on board of their own choice, or controlled from on high?
In an internal memo sent Monday afternoon to Reddit staff, former r/jailbait moderator and paedophile Steve Huffman addressed the recent blowback
FTFY